Evert Eloranta

Evert Eloranta (10 October 1879-1936) was a leader of the Finnish Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War.

Biography
Evert Eloranta was born on 10 October 1879 in Harjavalta, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire, and he worked as a farmhand and forester before becoming a journalist. Eloranta joined the Bolsheviks, and in 1918 he was made the Minister of Agriculture of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. After the defeat of the Bolsheviks in the Finnish Civil War, he left for the Soviet Union and became a citizen of Russia in 1929. He died in 1936 in the USSR.